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Syria: Climate Change, Drought and Social Unrest

Water shortages, crop-failure and displacement

From 2006-2011, up to 60% of Syria’s land experienced, in the terms of one expert, “the worst long-term drought and most severe set of crop failures since agricultural civilizations began in the Fertile Crescent many millennia ago.” According to a special case study from last year’s Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR),of the most vulnerable Syrians dependent on agriculture, particularly in the northeast governorate of Hassakeh (but also in the south), “nearly 75 percent … suffered total crop failure.” Herders in the northeast lost around 85% of their livestock, affecting 1.3 million people.

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WORST YET TO COME

Grimmer weather seen in next 10 years

The country hasn’t seen the last of extreme weather events.

Climate projections for 2020 and 2050 by the weather bureau are even grimmer: The dry season would be drier and the wet season would be wetter, and the damage to crops and water sources would be far-reaching. Mary Ann Lucille Sering, vice chairperson of the Climate Change Commission headed by President Benigno Aquino III, said that worst-case projections were for 2020.

“But the weather is changing now,” Sering said in an interview in the aftermath of the destruction wrought by Tropical Storm “Sendong” in Northern Mindanao.

“If we say we are racing against time, then technically, we can say that,” she added.

In fact, the country is in the midst of an environmental turmoil and politicians should address this with urgency, said Rosa Perez, a climate scientist at the Manila Observatory.

“They think it is a future problem, but it is happening now,” said Perez, lead author of a UN report on climate change adaptation and sustainability.

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tsunami tattoo in progress

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THIS. NEEDS. TO. GO. VIRAL.

I’m A Climate Scientist - Extended Version - (CLEAN) (by abchungrybeast)

Climate Scientists finally get angry about indifference to climate change

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staceythinx:

Beautifully heartbreaking: Industrial Scars by J. Henry Fair. This project documents the damage caused by industrial pollution, but it also captures how toxic waste can produce unnaturally vivid colors and abstract patterns.

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A flower struggles for life amid one of Istanbul’s most crowded urban areas. (First-prize winner, ‘free’ category.)

Flood waters lap up over homes’ doorsteps. Beached boats languish on dried-up shorelines. Fires rage, power plants belch smoke into the…

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tecnohaus:

time?

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Continue polluting and soon you may not have the choice.

climateadaptation:

Good one.

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